Item: News Digest for February 8, 2010
Early college program helps at-risk N.C. students:
North Carolina only has a 62 per cent graduation rate in its high schools, but at-risk students in the early college program seem to be staying in school. The early college program is a fast-track program in which students take five years to earn their high-school diploma and complete two years of college credits for free. This program has been aimed at overachieving students, but at Sandhills Community College in Raeford, N.C., they have targeted students whose parents don’t have a college degree.